420° Wade: East Yorkshire Bird Notes. 
fallen into the water. The Swifts, instead of arriving in small 
parties, came in flocks of hundreds (F. Boyes). The Pink Footed 
Geese, whose arrival on the Wolds on 19th September is con- 
sidered an event as fixed as the seasons themselves, this year 
made its appearance on 21st September. 
In spite of the inclement season, we have to record unusual 
appearanccs of some birds, which we should hardly have expected 
to see so far north this year, viz., a Nightingale sang regularly at 
Sutton, another at Waghen, and a third at Elloughton this spring, . 
and must have been breeding birds. On 28th May the Grasshopper 
Warbler, the scarcest of visitors to Holderness, was singing 
between Sutton and Waghen. On zoth May Mr, R. Haworth 
Booth saw a male Red-breasted Flycatcher at Hull Bank House; __ 
and on 4th June Mr. H. R. Jackson saw male and female of the 
same birds at Thearne, about a mile distant. The Turtle Dove 
has nested at Burton Constable this vear, the first time oh record, 
and is undoubtedly extending its range in Holderness, where ten 
years ago it was practically unknown as a breeding species. 
We have one or two interesting observations to record from 
this * district, viz -—— 
The noticeable scarcity of the Grey Crow in autumn and 
winter, as compared with previous seasons. Is it possible that 
some process of extermination is being carried out in their 
Scandinavian homes, say, by placing a capitation grant upon 
their destruction ? 
The extended breeding range of the Red-legged Partridge, 
which has become a well-known species on the Wolds and in 
Holderness in recent years. It would seem that this is a partially 
migratory species, contrary to what one would expect of so 
skulking a bird, for in April 1907, twelve were picked up on the 
beach at Hornsea in so exhausted a condition that the finder 
knocked them on the head and sold them. There were two 
occurrences of their being caught alive in back-yards, near 
Pearson Park, in Hull, this spring, and the birds were presented 
to the Park collections. Mr. H. R. Jackson shot one at Riston 
on 5th October, 1907, and reports that he has shot over the same 
ground twenty years, and never seen the bird there before. 
On 5th June a Quail was killed on the telegraph wires at 
Buckton ; and Mr. M. J. Stephenson shot one on 16th September 
and one on 20th September in the highest part of Arras Wold, 
one a bird of the year, and another an old bird. 
The gradual disappearance of the Corncrake from the 
East Riding is a melancholy fact. In Holderness, where it used to 
"Naturalist, 
